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Despite economic and territorial tensions, no one wants the city-states of the Eight Worlds to repeat the Terran Collapse by going to war. But when war accidentally happens, everyone seeks ways to exploit it for gain. The Landry and Peregoy ruling dynasties see opportunities to grab territory, increase profits, and settle old scores. Exploited underclasses use war to fuel rebellion. Ambitious heirs can finally topple their elders regimesor try to. But the unexpected key to either victory or peace lies with two persons uninterested in conquest, profits, or power. Philip Anderson seeks only the transcendent meaning of the physics underlying the universe. Tara Landry, spoiled and defiant youngest granddaughter of dynasty head Rachel Landry, accidentally discovers an eleventh star-jump gate, with a fabulous find on the planet behind it. Her discovery, and Philips use of it, alter everything for the Eight Worlds.
About the Author
Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-three books, including twenty-six novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her fiction has won six Nebulas (for "Out of All Them Bright Stars," "Beggars in Spain," "The Flowers of Aulit Prison," "Fountain of Age," "After the Fall, Before the Fall, and During the Fall,"and "Yesterday's Kin") , two Hugos (for "Beggars in Spain" and "The Erdmann Nexus") , a Sturgeon (for "The Flowers of Aulit Prison") , and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for PROBABILITY SPACE) . Her work has been translated into Swedish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Croatian, Korean, Lithuanian, Chinese, Romanian, Japanese, Russian, and Klingon, none of which she can read.In addition to writing, Kress often teaches at various venues around the country and abroad, including a visiting lectureship at the University of Leipzig, a 2017 writing class in Beijing, and the annual intensive workshop Taos Toolbox, which she teaches every summer with Walter Jon Williams. For sixteen years, she was the "Fiction" columnist for WRITER'S DIGEST magazine, and has written three books about writing (see Bibliography) .Although she began by writing fantasy, Nancy currently writes science fiction, often about genetic engineering. Her most recent book, IF TOMORROW COMES (Tor, 2018) , is the second in the YESTERDAY'S KIN trilogy, which began with her Nebula-winning novella. The third book, TERRAN TOMORROW, will be released by Tor in November, 2018. The series concerns a deadly epidemic, aliens who are not what they seem, and characters who must grow into positions they never expected to occupy on both a future Earth and a very different planet named World.Kress is married to writer Jack Skillingstead. They live in Seattle with Cosette, the world's most spoiled toy poodle.EVENT NOTE: I do not have the details for upcoming events and this website won't let me post them without such details as "starting minute," so I will just say here that I will be at the Science Fiction Worldcon in San Jose, August 16-19. I will also be Guest of Honor at Capclave in Washington D.C., September 28-30, 2018, and again at Foolscap in Seattle, February 1-3, 2019.
